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Mike Long On Wendy Long (Updated)

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long stopped by the CapTon studios on his way home to NYC after a very successful 50th anniversary CPPAC in Colonie this weekend to chat a bit about the three...

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Poll: NY Voters Oppose Gov’t Mandates On Catholic Institutions

A reader forwarded a mini-poll commissioned by the state Conservative Party that found a clear majority of New Yorkers strongly disapprove of federal regulations and mandates that would force...

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Mike Long’s In Buerkle’s Corner – No Matter Where She Runs (Updated)

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is pledging to help Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle get re-elected to Congress this fall – even if she has to primary a fellow Republican in a district adjacent to...

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Long Becoming Conservative Party ‘Favorite’ vs. Gillibrand

NYC attorney and political newcomer Wendy Long is emerging as “the favorite” among Conservative Party leaders and is likely to clinch the nomination when rank-and-file leaders gather in New York City...

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Molinari: Giuliani ‘About To’ Back Former Rival Romney

Most of the New York Republican establishment has backed Mitt Romeny for president (albeit rather tepidly, in the case of some, like former Gov. George Pataki, who once harbored White House dreams...

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Hedging His Bets

Rep. Bob Turner is not the Conservative Party’s pick in the upcoming US Senate race. That would be Wendy Long, an early favorite of Chairman Mike Long, who was advocating on her behalf long before the...

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Skelos Booed At Conservative Gala

Two different sources who attended the state Conservative Party’s 50th anniversary gala in New York City last night emailed to say that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was booed by members of the...

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Conservatives To ‘Senator Flick’: ‘Come Clean’ On 2016

A little out of nowhere this morning came a press release from state Conseravtive Party Chairman Mike Long that called on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand – to whom the release referred as “Senator Flick” – to...

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Rep. Bob Turner’s house burns in Queens

Two political figures were among dozens of homeowners in Queens’ Breezy Point neighborhood whose houses burned in a fire last night that was made impossible to fight by floodwaters from Superstorm...

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Mike Long Is Not A Fan Of Klein’s Coalition Plan

We’ve been hearing a lot over the past week or so from Democrats and their allies – the Working Families Party, labor leaders, Citizen Action etc. – about the need for a Democrat-controlled state...

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Long: We’ll Go Down Without Wilson-Pakula, But We’ll Take You With Us

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so-called fusion voting by repealing or amending the...

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Mike Long And Ed Cox For Zeldin (Updated)

In another example of the institutional powers-that-be lining up behind Sen. Lee Zeldin’s congressional run in NY-1, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long – UPDATE: and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox...

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Conservative Party delivers term-limit petitions to Skelos

With Carl Paladino already breathing down the neck of the state GOP’s top officials, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long today delivered petitions to Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos demanding...

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State Conservative Party’s Triple Threat

ICYMI: State Conservative Party Mike Long joined me on CapTon last night for a recap of his annual political conference, which took place this past Sunday and Monday at a hotel outside Albany. During...

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Conservatives Back Stefanik In NY-21 (Updated)

The state Conservative Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring...

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Long: Conservative democrats should vote for Teachout

The state’s Conservative Party chairman wants democrats to vote for the far left in the democratic primary for governor. Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is urging democrats, albeit conservative...

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Pre-primary interviews: Wu, Hochul, Teachout — the morning that was

Monday morning was jam-packed with last-minute interviews with some of the top candidates on the democratic primary ballot tomorrow. And there was almost a debate between lieutenant governor candidates...

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Conservative Chair: Vote ‘No’ On Grisanti

State Conservative Chairman Mike Long weighed in on one of the state’s most hotly contested Senate races, urging conservative voters to reject GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti’s long-shot re-election bid on the...

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Brooklyn Republicans Disavow Upstate Assemblyman’s ‘Lazy’ Claim

State Senator Marty Golden, left, with Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino today (Photo: Will Bredderman). Some of Brooklyn’s most prominent conservative voices rejected an upstate Republican...

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Ex-Staten Island BP: ‘Numerous People Asking Me to Run’ for Grimm Seat

James Molinaro said Staten Islanders are pushing him to run to replace Michael Grimm in Congress. Read more...

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